Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources From Paul's second letter to the church at Corinth we read,   "Do not be bound together with unbelievers, for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness . . ." (II Corinthians 6:14 - NASB)   Take note, "Do not."...

Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources From Paul's letter to the church at Galatia we read,   "But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh sets its desire against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the...

Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources From the book of Acts we read, "And so, when they had solemnly testified and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, and were preaching the gospel to many villages of the Samaritans. But an angel of...

Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources From the book of Acts we read, ". . . and behold, there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians . . . And he was returning and sitting in his chariot, and was reading the prophet...

Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources From chapter nineteen of Matthew we read, "And behold, one came to Him and said, 'Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may obtain eternal life?' And He said to him . . . . 'If you wish to be complete, go and sell...

Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources The psalmist and his words bring a proper start to the day,  "Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, from the heavens! Praise Him in the heights! Praise Him, all His angels; Praise Him all His hosts! Praise Him sun and moon;...

Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources From the book of Acts we read,   "And He said to them . . . you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of...

Daily Bread Archive | Sign up for our resources From the book of Deuteronomy we read, "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever" (Deuteronomy 29:29 - NKJV)   There are many "secret...

David writes in his psalm, "So I said, 'Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest." (Psalm 55:6 - NKJV)   Like David, we often would like to just mount up on "wings like a dove" and "fly away and be at rest." Why? It seems at times that...

From Paul's letter to the Philippians we read, "For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ." (Philippians 3:18 - NASB)   Each letter that Paul writes has in its content some kind of warning for...

Praying . . . we would, I believe, like to do it effectively, would we not? We would desire, I would think, that our prayers be substantive, would we not? Note, in his letter to the church at Ephesus, the content of Paul's prayer for the believers he is writing to,  ...

From the book of Hebrews we read, "For we who have believed do enter that rest . . ." (Hebrews 4:3 - NKJV)   This morning, as I was praying, my thoughts came around to this Sunday, and I remembered that on the Christian calendar we title this particular day as Palm...

From the Proverbs we read, "When there are many words, transgression is unavoidable. But he who restrains his lips is wise" (Proverbs 10:19 - NASB)   So . . . . much said leads to problems. The possibility of a "transgression" increase with the more "words" we speak....

From Peter's first letter we read, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to obtain an inheritance which is...

From Luke's gospel we read, "And He came out and proceeded as was His custom to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples also followed Him. And when He arrived at the place, He said to them, 'Pray that you may not enter into temptation.' And He withdrew from them about...

From Paul's letter to the believers in Corinth we read, "Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price; therefore glorify God in you body."...

From the Revelation of Jesus Christ we read, "To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: The One who holds the seven stars in His right hand, the One who walks among the seven golden lampstands, says this: 'I know your deeds and your toil and perseverance, and that...

From 1 John we read: "Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God." (I John 4:1 - NASB)   I read last night that there is currently a pretty intense movement afoot to bring Protestants back into the so-called "true...

From the book of James we read, "Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation, or shifting shadow." (James 1:17 - NASB)   Growing in the knowledge of our God; that is our desire,...

Marriage . . . certainly in God's eyes a most important matter, "Now concerning the things about which you wrote, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. But because of immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband." (I...

From Paul's letter we read, "For I am convinced that . . . (nothing) shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39 - NASB; note: "nothing" my addition) I purchased Steve Green's CD, "Hymns." I love to hear him...

From John's first epistle we read, "My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue, but in deed and in truth" (I John 3:18 - KJV)   "Love," a word used over and over again, so very common, yet the word love is never fully understood unless one knows...

From Paul's letter to the Corinthian believers we read,   "Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall" (I Corinthians 10:12 - NASB)   Paul has just written in the verses prior to our text that we, believers, should take note of Israel and the...

From the letter of Hebrews we read, ". . . since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For...

From the book of James we read,   "James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes who are dispersed abroad, greetings. Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, know that the testing of your faith produces...

From Matthew we read,   "You will know them by their fruits" (Matthew 7:16 - NASB)   This quote from Jesus comes from the great Sermon on the Mount in chapters five through seven. Jesus has just set forth a divine command to his disciples,   "Beware of the false...

As we raise up to the dawning of a new day may we remember well that, "Thy word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path" (Psalm 119:105 - NASB) And may the counsel from God's Word, may it be that "lamp" and that "light," that by it our paths may be made straight....

From the book of Job we read,   "Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said, 'Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Now gird up you loins like a man, and I will ask you, and you instruct Me! Where were you when I laid the...